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1. "Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason." ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
2. "The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint." ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
3. "You can't take back an act you were able to think." ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
4. "Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them." ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
5. "A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder." ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
6. "Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is." ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
7. "Without tolerance, our world turns into hell." ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
8. "The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence." ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
9. "News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news." ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
10. "Truth is always a delusion." ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
11. "Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again." ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
12. "Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age." ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
13. "The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all." ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
14. "Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic." ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
15. "When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words." ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
16. "A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory." ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
17. "A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn." ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
18. "For a person who is dying only eternity counts." ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
19. "Human life is beyond comprehension." ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
20. "So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right." ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
21. "Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead." ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
22. "Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it." ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
23. "Je planmässiger Menschen vorgehen, desto wirksamer trifft sie der Zufall." ~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt
24. "Ich fühle, wie ich langsam zu einem Mörder werde. Mein Glaube an die Humanität ist machtlos. Und weil ich es weiß, bin ich ein Säufer geworden." ~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt
25. "Nur im Irrenhaus sind wir noch frei. Nur im Irrenhaus durfen wir noch denken. In der Freiheit sind unsere Gedanken Sprengstoff." ~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt
26. "Reality can be only partially attacked by logic." ~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt
27. "Meldungen stürzen die Welt nie um. Das tun die Tatsachen, die wir nun einmal nicht ändern können, da sie schon geschehen sind, wenn die Meldungen eintreffen. Die Meldungen regen die Welt nur auf, man gewöhne sie sich deshalb so weit als möglich ab." ~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt
28. "Die Liebe ist ein Wunder, das immer wieder möglich, das Böse eine Tatsache, die immer vorhanden ist." ~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt
29. "Die Welt machte mich zu einer Hure, nun mache ich sie zu einem Bordell." ~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt
30. "I destini, considerati a posteriori, sono logici" ~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt
31. "[Gott ist] gerecht, Hofdichter. Sonst wäre die Welt keine Hölle." ~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt
32. "Byen var et uhyre, som uavbrutt fødte, oppløste og slukte nye mennesker." ~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt
33. "Men vet hvordan det er om lørdagen, tenkte han mens han gikk over Altenbergbroen, da viser alle embedsmenn tenner og er sure bare fordi de har dårlig samvittighet over at de ikke har gjort noe fornuftig i hele uken." ~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt
34. "Jeg får vel ta meg en kikk på ham. Forfattere er alltid litt tvilsomme personer, men jeg vet nok hvordan jeg skal ta den slags typer." ~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt
35. "Apparve come una scellerata con la presunzione di contrapporsi ad un potere che tutto stritola, sì, ma perdona anche ogni peccato e solleva da ogni responsabilità, e compresi che questa era la vera ragione con cui la folla era stata indotta a rinunciare alla libertà e ad arrendersi al male, perché colpa ed espiazione esistono soltanto nella libertà" ~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt
36. "A writer doesn't solve problems. He allows them to emerge." ~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt
37. "Der Mensch ist für mich ein Wesen, das nur durch paradoxe, komödiantische Mittel, Formen, dargestellt werden kann, denn der Mensch geht nicht auf wie eine Rechnung, und wo der Mensch so aufgeht, ist die Rechnung sicher gefälscht." ~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt
38. "Je öfter sich ein Politiker widerspricht, desto größer ist er." ~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt

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